 | William Smith - Biography - 1849 - 1222 pages
...length of this article will not be blamed by any one who considers that, the sacred writers excepted, no Greek has been so much read or so variously translated...which the young scholar or the young mathematician can rind all the information about this name which its celebrity would make him desire to have. Euclid... | |
 | William Smith - Biography - 1873 - 1248 pages
...length of this article will not be blamed by any one who considers that, the sacred writers excepted, no Greek has been so much read or so variously translated as Euclid. To this it mar be added, that there is hardly any book in our language in which the young scholar or the young... | |
 | William Smith - Biography - 1880 - 1242 pages
...length of this article will not be blamed by any one who considers that, the sacred writers excepted, no Greek has been so much read or so variously translated...may be added, that there is hardly any book in our lanruage in which the young scholar or the young nathematician can find all the information about this... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - Greek literature - 1890 - 938 pages
...Elements, and when it is borne in mind that, as De Morgan said of him, " the sacred writers excepted, no Greek has been so much read or so variously translated as Euclid," the importance of the scientific work done at Alexandria is not to be easily over-estimated. The Elements... | |
 | Florian Cajori - Mathematics - 1896 - 324 pages
...position in modern education as has Euclid in elementary geometry. " The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read or so variously translated as Euclid." 1 After mentioning Eudoxus, Thea^tetus, and other members of the Platonic school, Proclus 2 adds the... | |
 | William Barrett Frankland - Euclid's Elements - 1902 - 186 pages
...Morgan takes a low view of the Elements, for he declares elsewhere — • "The sacred writers excepted, no Greek has been so much read or so variously translated as Euclid."* t " The thirteen books of Euclid must have been a tremendous advance, probably even greater than that... | |
 | William Barrett Frankland - Euclid's Elements - 1902 - 186 pages
...Morgan takes a low view of the Elements, for he declares elsewhere — "The sacred writers excepted, no Greek has .been so much read or so variously translated as Euclid." * " The thirteen books of Euclid must have been a tremendous advance, probably even greater than that... | |
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The length of this article will not be blamed by any one who considers that, the sacred writers excepted, no Greek has been so much read or so variously translated as Euclid. 